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REPORT OF A. C. GOODRICH 



Commissioner for the First District. 



OCTOBER MEETING, 1912. 



Yamhill, Oregon, October 2, 1912. 



To the Honorable the State Board of Horticvlture: 



I beg leave to submit my report as commissioner of the first 

 district: 



Owing to conditions not linder my control I have not been 

 able to visit the orchards in my district nor the displays of 

 fruit at the various fairs as much as I should have liked. 



Outside of the prunes, we have had a very good crop of fruit 

 throughout the district and growers have, in the main, had 

 fairly satisfactory prices for that part of the crop that has 

 already been marketed. Berries did better than the unfavor- 

 able weather of the early spring would have seemed to War- 

 rant, and owing to the very good growing conditions during 

 the summer, and perhaps something to better methods and 

 more thorough cultivation, the cane fruits have made a very 

 favorable growth. 



Winter apples have done very well and are much more free 

 from worms than in former years, owing, without doubt, to 

 more intelligent and thorough spraying ; though there is much 

 yet to be desired in the matter of the control of apple scab 

 which has not been controlled nearly so well as the codling 

 moth ; this is particularly the case with the yellow apples. 



Prunes, which are commercially of major importance in this 

 district, have suffered more from a series of untoward con- 

 ditions than they have during any season in a long time. The 

 early spring gave promise of a bountiful crop, but early 

 blooming combined with colcl rain and some frost, though not 

 nearly so severe as the trees withstood in the previous spring, 

 caused a very heavy loss of the fruit from the trees early in 

 the season, and when this was followed by an unusual amount 

 of curl leaf the crop was reduced to a fractibn so small we 

 shall not be able to know how small tili actual figures are 

 obtainable. 



Loganberries have been given much attention of late and if 

 steady and favorable markets can be obtained should prove 

 one of the best money-makers the fruit-growers have; but 



